The Impact of Diversity in Cybersecurity on the Protection of Future Accounting Information An Analytical Study of the Opinions of a Sample of Professionals and Academics in Erbil City

Abstract

The research aims to explain the role of Cyber Security in protecting future accounting information, given that it contains the company’s future plans and strategies, which should be protected and not fall into the hands of competitors. To achieve the goal of the research, an electronic questionnaire was distributed to a sample of (132) individuals from professionals and specialized workers. In the field of accounting information systems, in addition to academic accounting in universities and institutes in the city of Erbil, and its results were analyzed by the statistical program (SPSS), and the research reached a number of conclusions, most notably that there is a statistically significant impact of diversity in Cyber Security in protecting future accounting information, and in Finally, the research made some recommendations, the most important of which is the need for companies to protect their future accounting information by setting complex passwords and not making company communications available to any third parties without a private encryption key, in addition to conducting a test to verify the extent to which applications meet security requirements.